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Show I V f2S , : i ' I:o-' " 1 Henry Miller has opened hfe season early. Last Monday evening ho ap-, ap-, pearal In San Francisco In "Mice and Men," ono oC the plays he 13 to present pre-sent at the- Salt Lake- Theatre oarly In Berpiomber. The performance was a I pleading: one, the Chronicle saying of It: "Henry ivilller never brought a more charming- play to brighten a San Fran-i Fran-i clsco summer than "Mice and Men," i i produced laet evening: at the Columbia .theatre. It Is billed as "Madeleine Lu-( Lu-( cetto Ryley's London and New York i success," but when Miller makes his i cdieu after this, hlw seventh annual engagement en-gagement here, the name of the critical ,bJg city of the West may surely be I t added to the list of those commending the artistic production. For Miller 1 there was a sort of home-coming- greet-( greet-( ing; for the play, rapt attention, and spontaneous enthusiasm not to be misunderstood. mis-understood. One stopped counting the i times that Miller wae recalled, and finally a demand for a speeoh brought a. simple, genuine expression of appreciation appre-ciation for his reception. Generously, as of old, Miller brought out his support sup-port to share with him the honors of the evening. He seldom, acknowledged i the greetings without the little leading 1 lady, Miss Jessie Busley, and onco he had her face alone the audience that , had adopted her almost from the start. I She is not a stage beauty, but a gen-j gen-j ulne, frank, lovable young girl, without 1 affectation of any kind." After nil. Salt Lake theatergoers are to see Ethel Barrymoro next month. j.ne Announcement oi sucn an improvement improve-ment In her health that she would be able to appear here on August 15 and 1G, removed disappointment caused by the cancellation of her engagements, and aroused new Interest among thoso who enjoy good thlnge In the dramatical dramati-cal line. Ii ' 4 Frederick Wardc declares that his forthcoming tour with Wagenhols and Kemper's spectacular production of "Salammbo," In which he will be associated as-sociated with Miss Kathryn Kidder, will be his farewell to the regular stage. 1 This will not mean that he Is to re tire from public life, however, as he is to adopt the lecture platform with works of Shakespeare and the other great dramatic classics as. his theme. Channlng Pollock's association with William A. Brady ,as general press representative rep-resentative has ended. Mr. Pollock, who is a Salt Laker, will succeed Charles T. K. Miller In the same capac-I capac-I ity with the Shuberts. Mr. Pollock has I been connected with Mr. Brady for five years, and he makes this move with the latter's consent and friendly wishes, Mr. Brady has under consideration an original play by Mr Pollock, which was " recently completed. ' u ' An Interesting event which Is expected ' to occur late In the autumn, will Inter fere with the tour of Miss Mary Man-nerlng, Man-nerlng, a popular star ahd the wife of I James K. Hackett, The actress was to have, opened the coming season under the management of Frank McKec in her former success, "The Stubborness of Geraldlne," and later to appear in a now play by Paul Potter. Her early engagements hnve been cancelled, however, how-ever, and It will probably be well Into the winter before she is again seen on the stage, if at all the corning season. Mr. Hackett and Miss Mannering were marled May 2, 1S07, in New York during Miss Mnnnering's first appearance in 1 thl3 country. In "The Courtship of Le- 1 onle," at the Lyceum theatre. Mr. i Hackett has been out at the head of his own company, but was brought to New York to be leading mun for Miss Man-ncrlng. Man-ncrlng. They kept their marriage a , secret until January 1898, when it was f announced at a dinner at which Mr. I Hackett, Miss Mannering and several other stnrs were guests. The Western "County Chairman" , company, which will be here In November, will be headed by Theodore Kooerta and ueorge Thatcher, who will B play respectively the roles of Jim Hack- BB !er, the county chairman, and Sassafras BBv Livingston, the Irrepressible darkoy. "hhhhhh During a conversation regarding his BB plans for the futuro David Warficld BB took occasion to declare that he would BBj not Impersonate 'any more Hebrew BB' characters on the stago excepting in the BB , possible caeo thai a play should be writ- BB ten for him by Israel Zangwfll and BH David Belasco, conveying an entirely BBh new type to the thoater. "nnnmHi B Miss Fritzl Gcheff will begin her sea- BBmI son in Chicago next month. "hhhhhh H, Nance O'Neill is to be seen In New H, York, next season under the ntanago- BBfl ment of John B. Schocffel. BB flf Wallack's theater. New York, whore BB, "The County Chairman" played last BB' se.ison from November 24 to June 4 BB without Interruption, will be reopened BBfl! September 1 with the same attraction. m a ( Richard Mansfield was discussing the BBJ subject of vengeance. BB 'Vengeance, as a rule," ho said, B "should be left to the gods. I can't help sympathizing, though, with the B vengeunce that a stage villain took on BH , his manager last year In the West. BBj "The villain was supposed, at tho end BB of the fifth act, to plungo a knife into BBS his heart and to die very hard, rolling BH end kicking all over the stage. BH ' "When his cue en mo he did plunge Bj i in the knife, but then, Instead of dying, BBJ ' he lay down on the. floor, crossed his BB ; legs, and burst into loud, long laughter, BB the dagger still sticking, mind you, In BB ' his breast. BHI ' The audleuco was amazed and stupe- Bj fled at such unreasonable conduct. Tho BBV ' BBfl BBfl' Hi' action on the stage could not go on, for they wore nmazod and stupefied, too. The manager, nearly beside himself, hissed from the stage in a loud phts-per: phts-per: ' 'You fool, what are you laughing at? This is your death scene.' " 'Death scene?' said the recumbent villain. 'Yes, I know it. and with such a Balary as you give me death comes as a happy release.' " ' " " "San Toy," the Chinese musical play, which John C. Fischer will exploit this season, with Jame3 T. Powers In Ill's original part of LI, will begin its tour at Asbury Park August 5, going thence to Manhattan Beach for a week, then to Newport, and to the principal cities of the country. It will be In Salt Lake In November. "Sunday" is the title of the new play In which Maude Adams Is to be seen next season. It Is English. The scenes are laid In London and In an American mining camp. It has had a noteworthy success In London. Edna Wallace Hopper is to return to the cast of "Floradora," which starts out on November 21, opening in St. Paul. Ida Conquest, after her successful tour across the continent with Richard Mansfield, Is again in New York rehearsing re-hearsing the leading part In a new comedy to be produced at the Garrlck theater about the end of August. She was to play In Denver as a star for a month, but special inducements were offered her to give that up and create this new part. Nat C, Ooodwln has a new play by Edmond Rostand, the author of "Cyrano "Cyra-no de Bcrgerac," for which he paid $5000 In advance royalties. Sir Henry Irving will open his next year's tour of America In San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Sarah Truax will succeed Miss Margaret Mar-garet Ellington as Henrietta In the "all-star" cast of "The Two Orphans" noxt season. Miss Clara Morris, who talked of retiring to privlte life again, will continue In the role of Sister Genevieve, Gene-vieve, Miss Bijou Fernandez will play Marianne and Louis James will be the Jacques. The Drury Lane spectacle, "Mother Goose" will open Its second season In the uiympic tneater, si. iouis, September Septem-ber 4. The title role "will be played by Joseph Cawthorne, who made a success in this part last season. Other leading lead-ing principals of the big cast are Henry' Kelly, William Macart, Clifton Crawford. Craw-ford. Leila Mclntyre, Neva Aymar, Edith St. Clair, Edith Hutchlns, Allan Ramsay, Walter Stanton and Seymore and Dawe. The entire orgalnzatlon will number nearly 400 persons and will be the largest traveling company ever sent en tour. It will be at the Salt Lake Theutcr for a week in March. Denman Thompson's revival of "The Old Homestead" at the New York theater September 5 will be made on a very elaborate scale, with a scenic magnificence never before attempted In a pla of this class. This revival will mark the beginning of Mr. Thompson's thirtieth consecutive Eeason on the stage. Tim Murphy Is to have two new plays next season, so If one does not go well he will have an emergency piece. The "plays are to be "Two Men and a Girl," by Frederick Paulding, and "The Spice of Life," a four-act comedy by A. S. Bishop. An actress was shotldead on the stage of the Orts theater, Madrid, owing to a revolver being loaded with ball by error. "Checkers." one of the theatrical hits of last season and which played three separate engagements In New York City, will begin Its season on August 22 at the Academy of Music In New York City for an indefinite run. Thomas Thom-as W. Ross will play the title role, supported sup-ported by substantially the same company com-pany of 1C0 people seen last season. Property men have many ajid varied experiences, and the following story well Illustrates their troubles. The property man arrived In one of those small fly-by-nlght towns, and the first question he put to the local manager was: "Where's the stage carpenter?" Tho manager replied that he ran a blacksmith shop across the way when there were no shows In town. The property man hied himself across the street and niter much argument drew forth a promise from the blacksmith to come over and hang the drops for him after dinner. Noon came and "props" sweated and fumed, but no oarpenicr came, u nree o ciocK. ana still no carpenter. Back he went to the blacksmith shop, but tho proprietor couldn't possibly come until G or 7 o'clock, because ho had some "shoeing" to do. At 7:30 he ambled over to the hall "What you all goln' to play?" he asked. "The Lady of Lyons," "props" replied. "Umph, umph, sorry can't ,come over. I seen the show!" William Gillette's new play may be called "Clarice." He may play ten week; In this country next season In "The Admirable Crichton." At last "Bedella" has accomplished something! An audience of about 700 people In the Casino theater at Waukesha. Wau-kesha. Wis., was thrown Into a panic some time ago by a small boy's shout of "Fire.1" In the gallery. In the rush for exits which followed several women fainted, but no ono was hurt. Ray Brown, the hero of the play, showed his resourcefulness by marching to the front of the stage ruid dramatically 'singing "Bedelia." This was enough for even a panic-stricken audience, an.d in a few moments the audience was laughing. t 4 Amelia Bingham will open her season sea-son In Norfolk. Va., playing her repertoire. reper-toire. In addition to the company she had last season, John Kellerd and Joseph Jo-seph Kllgour have been engaged. Miss Bingham will take to New York Just before the holidays a new play dealing with American life by George Middle-ton, Middle-ton, the title of which Is "The Vital Issue." Announcement has been made at the ofilces of Hamlin Mitchell & Fields in New. York that Victor Herbert has been engaged to write all the music for the ? productions at the Lew'M. Fields theater, thea-ter, which Id to open on West Forty-second Forty-second street in November. a Among those engaged by Charles B. Dillingham for Miss Lul,u Glaser's company com-pany In "A Madcap Princess" are Ham Pruette. Bertram Vallls. Donald MacLaren, Arthur Barry, Frank Rel-cher, Rel-cher, Reginald Barlow, Miss Mary Con-well Con-well and Miss Gwendolyn Valentine. j u m It is said that Mrs. Leslie Carter, who has been talking of portraying Lady Macbeth, will appear in this role the coming season. Mrs. Minnie Mnddern Flske also expects to appear In this character, as does Nance O'Neill, ami Bertha Gallaud. who played Lady Macbeth Mac-beth in Washington nearly two years ago. will give a 'few special performances perform-ances In this city after the close of her season In "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall." Formulae aren't bad things In the theatrical equipment. The foremost players have a few of them that are watchwords In their professional Jives, but players dread the dogmatic and ono has to use the forceps to extract these formulae. Hut. once extracted, they are excellent topics of thought. For instance, here is what Ellen Terry says of the necessary qualities of a successful suc-cessful actress: "She must have a good heart and the three 'I'a' Imagination, Independence Independ-ence and Industry." Director Sargent of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, said of an actress he saw at the Odeon in Paris; "There she was, a woman alone on the stage, apparently doing nothing, yet her every mental depression or exhilaration ex-hilaration was reflected in the audience. She possessed the three characteristics of an actor concentration, enthusiasm and responsiveness." Dramatic Mirror. Henry W. Savage has engaged William Wil-liam P. Carleton, one of the best known baritones on the stage, to sing the role of Leopoldo In "The Yankee Consul." k Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger announce the formation of a permanent burlesque stock company, with Miss Fay Temple-ton Temple-ton at Its head and Peter F. Dailey, Joseph Coyne and Lee Harrison supporting. f m A parody on "Hamlet" Is to be produced pro-duced in London. It' Is by W. S: Gilbert and Is entitled "Rosencranz and Gulld-erstern." Gulld-erstern." Mr. Gilbert himself Is to be the King, while Madelalne Lucette Ry-ley, Ry-ley, Lady Colin Campbell, Henry Arthur Ar-thur Jones, Captain Robert Marshall, J M. Barrle and Bernard Shaw are to take, other roles. ' A storehouse near Boston, which contained con-tained all the scenery for Henry W. Ravage's forthcoming production of "Parsifal" In English, caught fire a few days ago, but, fortunately, the costly scenery was saved. While Walter Bur-ridge, Bur-ridge, general sceplc artist for Mr. Savage, was watching the firemen fight the flames, a small urchin pulled Mr. Burridge's coat. "Say. mister," he said, "it's a little early to roast your show, ain't It?" Harper's Weekly Charles Frohman Is going to take a company from New York for a week's engagement In Paris next summer. It will follow one of his London companies com-panies and if the experiment is successful suc-cessful English and American plays will have a brief season In Paris every year. ft o May "Robson has returned from abroad with a new play written around a cockney slavey and called "The Lucky Number." Miss Robson may change the name befori she appears In the play in the fall. o May Irwin Is to return to the stage in October under the management of Henry B. Sire. It Is said that she will have a play by George BroadhursL Miss Irwin may also play some of her .former successes. George H Brohdhurst Is wrtlng a musical comedy In which Isadore Rush Jb to star. Fisher &. Ryley's other productions pro-ductions will Include a new play taken from the French of "Le Sire do Vergy;" a revival of "San Toy," with Jamos T. Powers. "Glittering Gloria," a "Floro-dora" "Floro-dora" company, with Edna Walace Hopper, and a "Silver Slipper" company. com-pany. 9 m Viola Allen, having recovered from a severe surgical operation, which Interrupted Inter-rupted her season last winter, has arranged ar-ranged for a rich revival of "A Winter's Tale," In which, like Mary Anderson, she will appear both as Hermlone and 1 Perdlta. Miss Allen will also clvo an occasional performance of "Twelfth Night," In which she was remarkably successful last season. It has been related of John McCul-lough McCul-lough that on one occasion only he turned a tragic scene into one of comedy. com-edy. It was the outcome of an accident, acci-dent, and showed that, with all his dramatic sense of the serious, he still had his Irish sense of humor. During a scene, which was set a3 a Roman senate chamber, he unfortunately unfortunate-ly came in forcible contact with ono of the pillars supporting some of tho scenery. The pillar, instead of being the usual "prop" manufacture, was a heavy piece of timber, half round, and painted whlto, to resemble marble. The impact of the actor's head against this jarred both pillar and man, so that for a moment he lost his lines. The audience audi-ence was breathless with suspense, fearing their favorite had hurt himself badly. McCullough saw this. and. to assure them to the contrary, by a little bit of comedy business, he turned the silence into laughter. Taking a large hankerchlef from the bosom of his tunic, he proceeded to unfold un-fold it lengthwise Into a bandage, the audlnece thinking his intention wa3 to bind it about his Injured forehead. However, he approached the offending pillar, and solicitously bandaged It ln-steada ln-steada bit of business that brought the house down. It appears that In the time of Napoleon Na-poleon Bonaparte there were stage sirens. General Gourgaud tells us that on one of the dreary St. Helena days, the Emperor, discussing the duty of a father to his sons, said: "To doprlve one's self of a fortune for their sokes is more folly. Y'ou may have economized econo-mized all your life for them, and then the bright eyes of a bullet girl will in a moment dissipate your fortune." o Marie Welsh has been engaged by Henry W.. Savage for the role of Neille Wagner In "Tho Prince of Plleen" company that will tour the United States. Miss Welsh has been singing leading soprano roles In grand opera at the Tlvoli theator, San Francisco, for three seasons. Charley M. Collins, the actor, who had been conspicuous on the American stage for thirty-one yeart, died recently. Collins was one of tha members of the original Union Square theater company and played for several seasons with Booth and Earrettt. Last season he played Sheik Ilderim. tho Arab chief, In "Ben Hur." It look Blanche Ring eight ycaro to rise from the ranks, and the opportunity sho had been praying for all that 'time came unexpectedly through the topical r.ong, "The Good Old Summer Time." nays the New York Press. Against the unending rebukes of managers, the actress had persistently assei-ted that she was potweueed of the talent and the experience to find succew) as a leading player, but it was the mere chance of her election to sing the now time-worn time-worn song that lifted her within reach of the place she re-ally deserved. Her climb from obscurity was slow and difficult, dif-ficult, and at present, when she seems to have established herself permanently in public esteem, there Ik a bright promise of another actress making similar sim-ilar progress. Stella Mayhew was the one pleaping feature of "The Man From Chlna.V She was not favored with a highly important part; she was only on the stage a few minutes, yet her performance was marked by such conspicuous merit that wonder grew why sho had not been seen In Broadway Broad-way before. "The Good Old Summer Time" served to bring Miss Ring Into prominence and "Fifty-seven Ways to Catch a Man" has -done the same for Mi93 Mayhew. "The Runaways," the musical extravaganza ex-travaganza which will be hero In December. De-cember. 1st the Joint work of two Chicago Chi-cago young men. It is in two acts, the first being laid at Saratoga and the second on the mythical Island of Table D'Hote, where dyspepsia Is unknown. There are three prima donnas, six comedians, come-dians, four distinct groups of show girls, including the famous Casino beauty chorus and the celebrated English Eng-lish Daisy Pony ballet. Klaw & Erlangcr's production of "Ben Hur" will begin Its sixth season Monday evening, September 5, In Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. Two weeks in Indianapolis and one week in Columbus, Ohio, will follow. Monday. October 3, an eight weeks' run at the Olympic theater In SL Louis will be begun. Its route for the remainder of the season includes the principal cities of the South, Southwest South-west and Middle West. Neva Aymar, the comedienne, Binger and dancer, who attracted not a little attention with the Rogers Brothers' company last season, will play the role of Colin, the principal boy, In Klaw & Erlanger's Drury Lane spectacle, "Mother Goose," the coming season. "Pretty Peggy," by Frances Aymar Mathews. In which Jane Corcoran will star during the coming season, will open the middle of August and will be one of tho first of the big productions to visit the South and West, reaching here in October. Miss Corcoran will be supported sup-ported by' Andrew Robson and an unusually un-usually large company, under the management man-agement of Arthur C. Alston and J. Emmett Baxter. Arthur Dunn, the comedian star of "The Runaways," who measures a little lit-tle above four feet, was recently asked why he Is so small. He remarked: "Well, I will tell you I got married recently ajid settled down." t "Modern staging In Its highest form," says Julian Mitchell, "should aim at the creation of beautiful pictures, not at the exact Imitation of real surroundings. surround-ings. For example, the poppy field In 'The Wizard of Oz' Is a mere poetic suggestion of a field of flowers, not a perfectly deceptive Imitation of tho real thing. In devising this scene I merely told the scenic artist (o provide a beautiful, beau-tiful, but simple, background, "and then by the skillful modulation of lights, and by posing the coryphees In the guise of flowers I obtained the effects sought for a suggestion Instead of a reality; a symbol Instead of an Imitation. This scene appeals both to the eye and the Imagination. Other scenes of a prosaic nature in 'The Wizard' must necessarily necessar-ily be as graphic and actual as possible, possi-ble, and all of the details must be exact and correct. The artistic aim here must be, truth to nature." Hence the poppy field and tho Kansas farm In 'The Wizard Wiz-ard of Oz' represent the antipodes of scenic realism; one' Is a symbol, th'c other a reality one a creation, the other an imitation," Additional engagements are announced an-nounced by Mr. Flske for the Manhattan Manhat-tan Theater company In New York, that Is to support Mrs. Flske in her productions next season. Among these are Laura McGIlvray, who was formerly former-ly a member of John Hare's company, and who will appear as Amelia Sedley In the revival of "Becky Sharp." which will open the season In September; and Stanley Rignold, who was the original George Osborne In that comedy. Mrs. Sol Smith has also been secured. She will be the Miss Crawley, while Frank J. Mclntyre will be seen In the role of the fat and fatuous Joseph Sedley. |
